Category: Journalism

With Mass Comm Week coming to an end, students gathered for the last event of the week to hear advertising graduates share their experiences in the work force. Recent Texas State University advertising graduates Divya Darsi, Matt Shoewalter and Olivia Williams each shared their journeys in landing a job after college and working as professionals.Read More

With resumes in hand, students filed into the LBJ Ballroom where several companies set up booths filled with flyers and goodies in hopes of finding their newest intern or full-time employee. Every year during Mass Comm Week, Career Services hosts the Mass Communication Career Fair. People from a variety of businesses and companies set upRead More

By Gabriella Carrizales Gac78@txstate.edu SAN MARCOS — Senior lecturer Dale Blasingame and two students, Haley Jenkins and Zach Ientasch, gave background information and shared their experience during the first Study in America program. Study in America is a summer program that gives students the out-of-class experience while staying cost effective. This program travels withinRead More

By Bayley Bogus bdb114@txstate.edu SAN MARCOS, Texas — Five female coders sat on a panel Oct. 18 to talk about their specific jobs and what it entails to be a woman in a male-dominated field. Kimberly Cook, Rebecca Larson, Ashley Hebler, Erika Toney and Holly Gibson are all women who have careers in the codingRead More

By Alexandra Cochran Alc261@txstate.edu SAN MARCOS — Communications coordinator, A.J. Arreguin and Director of Communications and Community Relations, Shannon Rideout, visited Texas State from Del Valle ISD during Mass Comm Week to promote public relations in public schools. The Del Valle Independent School District serves over 11,000 students within 15 different campuses while catering toRead More

By Zee Battle SAN MARCOS — On Oct. 17, during Mass Communication Week at Texas State, KXAN reporter Alicia Inns gave students the rundown of what her job is like as a multimedia journalist, also called backpack journalism. Inns has been in the journalism business for about seven years and has had the responsibility ofRead More

By Lesly De Leon The Marshall Project Managing Editor Kirsten Danis shared the importance of rigorous reporting and offered advice to Texas State SJMC students Tuesday. Danis became managing editor for The Marshall Project in August 2015, about ten months after the project kicked off. The Marshall Project, a nonprofit and nonpartisan journalism organization, focusesRead More

By Lionel Reynosa Conversing with hitmen, managing a rock group and economic activism are just a few things you can expect to learn when speaking to someone in the mass communications field. Mass Comm Week has begun, and there are many things to learn from professionals visiting campus this week. Many of these professionals haveRead More

Students take notes while Kathryn Gisi shares life as a bureau reporter. Photo by Kelly Newton By Kelly Newton SAN MARCOS, Texas – Kathryn Gisi, a reporter for Spectrum News, spoke to mass communication students Monday night about the realities of life as a bureau reporter. Having graduated Texas State University in 2011,Read More

By Garrett McGinley grm56@txstate.edu The 2017 mass communication week officially begun Monday with the student organization fair. The fair is meant to emphasize the many organizations available to students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. These organizations all offer opportunities to network with students that hold similar interests. Some even offer hands-on workRead More

Welcome to MC Week!

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication is hosting its annual Mass Comm Week, Oct. 15-19, 2018. It’s your chance to look to the future and hear professionals discuss issues, trends and careers in mass media.